πέρ (postpositive and enclitic) very, just, even. Cp. Epic πέριvery much, and περί in composition. In Attic prose πέρ is common only with relatives ( cross338 c) and conjunctions.

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ὅσπερthe very one who (i.e. none other), οἷός περjust such, ἔνθα περjust where, ὥσπερjust as, in the very way in which, (sometimes not very different from ὡς, to which it is related as ὅσπερ to ὅς), εἴπερif really. καίπερ (Hom. καὶ . . . περ) however much, though, Epic ἠέ περjust as.

a. After other words especially in Epic and Lyric and in Aeschylus; as μένει τὸ θεῖον δουλίᾳ περ έν φρενίthe divine power remains in the mind though it be enslavedA.Ag. 1084, μάχετ', ἀχνύμενός περ ἑταίρουhe fought, (though) sore grieving for his comrade P 459, ὀψέ περhowbeit late Pind. Nem. 3. 80.